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netwealth adopts Morphic Global Opps Fund

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... Energy Group (US, 2.18%), Bob Evans Farms (US, 1.99%), plus emerging markets indices and commodities, in particular gold and silver.

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... will again find their way into risk assets and assets that are considered inflation hedges like precious metals - gold and silver - and out of bonds and money market instruments QE1 worked. The S&P 500 index gained nearly 40% between its announcement ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... the respective index levels just 6.7% and 4.4% away from the all-time high reached way back on 9 October 2007. Gold and silver and oil rose. So did US Treasuries. All because Big Ben did a Super Mario - not only in the QE sense but also in assuring the ...

WA closures signal mining boom end: Veda

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... leading indicator. But according to Shane Oliver, chief economist at AMP Capital, the end of the mining boom should have a silver lining. While there is the risk of a timing mismatch around the end of the investment boom in 2014 and as other sectors ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... endless nightmare go away. Sorry to disappoint but Rome was not built in a day. Healing takes time, it's a process, not one silver bullet. And it's happening as we speak. Just think how clean and healthy government, business and household balance sheets ...

Super asset changes deliver positive return

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... tipping super funds into positive territory for 2011-12 with an annual return of +0.5%. While sitting below inflation, the silver lining is in the contrast with the -7% return delivered by the S&P/ASX 300, according to Alex Dunnin, director of research ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... 2.0%, the S&P 500 declined by 2.2% and the Nasdaq lost 2.4%. It was a similar story for commodities: Gold dropped by 2%, silver 3.6%, copper 2.2%, oil 2.1%. (As an aside, the Fed would still be unmoved by the magnitude of last night's drop). In the absence ...

Investors missing the eurozone silver lining

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
In the steady stream of bad news flowing out of the eurozone, investors might not be looking for the silver lining, said senior investment heads at Franklin Templeton. "From a bottom-up standpoint, we believe significant investment opportunities still ...

Compensation report finds against last resort scheme

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... productive to introduce a last resort compensation scheme at this stage". "As Mr St. John's report has shown there is no silver bullet to solve this complex problem overnight," said Bill Shorten, Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. "The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... in booming markets like China. PARIS - Hermes is the latest luxury products group to show that economic crises can have silver linings, announcing record sales and profits. NEW YORK - FedEx says the global economy isn't growing as strongly as expected ...